Howie b
Howie B was a popular London-based DJ and nascent studio hand prior to his move into full-time recording and production in the early '90s. Born in Glasgow, Howard Bernstein's association with Bristol club faves like Soul II Soul and Massive Attack helped fuel his fusion of soul, hip-hop, house, jazz, and funk, which he first hazarded on early collaborative projects like Dobie and Nomad Soul. He launched his own label, Pussyfoot, in 1994, already having released tracks under his own name and Olde Scottish through the noted outbound hip-hop imprints 2Kool and Mo'Wax. He'd also issued a small (but steady) stream of material that moved hip-hop instrumentals one step beyond the experimental, thus joining Howie B with beat junkies like DJ Shadow, U.N.K.L.E, Portishead, and Coldcut at the forefront of a U.K. breakbeat renaissance.
Although his genre-spanning work with Skylab on 1994's #1 brought his talents for organized chaos to a wider audience, it was ultimately his role in the production chair (on albums by Tricky, Björk, and eventually U2) that landed Howie B. a multi-album recording deal with Polydor Records. This deal yielded LPs including 1996's Music for Babies, 1997's Turn the Dark Off, and 1999's Snatch. He continued fielding production offers in the early 2000s and eventually partnered with Casino Royale, an eclectic Italian band that -- like Howie himself -- had worked with U2 during the previous decade. The group requested his help in producing their comeback album, Reale, and the resulting record hit Italian shores in 2006. Howie B wished to continue working with the material, however, and secured the band's permission to mold the footage into something new. Reale: Not in the Face arrived in 2008, featuring his own reworked versions of Casino Royale's master recordings. In 2013 he founded HB Recordings and released his album Down with the Dawn on the label a year later.
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Discography
11 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Down With the Dawn
Electronic - Released by Pussyfoot Records on 7 Apr 2014
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Snatch (Bonus Track Version)
Electronic - Released by Pussyfoot Records on 15 Mar 1999
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Bande Originale du scénario "Last Bingo in Paris" (2004)
Film Soundtracks - Released by MK2 Music on 1 Jun 2004
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Mayonnaise II
Howie b, Crispin Hunt, Will O'Donovan
Electronic - Released by Lunaticworks on 4 Mar 2008
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Oh The Places You'll Go
Alternative & Indie - Released by Pussyfoot Records on 17 Aug 2018
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Brass Is Brass
Electronic - Released by Pussyfoot Records on 22 Mar 2019
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Thats Down
Electronic - Released by Pussyfoot Records on 8 Nov 2019
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Peacock Town (feat. Secret Cinema)
Techno - Released by WM China on 23 Sep 2021
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Frankies City
Electronic - Released by Pussyfoot Records on 9 Dec 2013
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We Got To Move feat. Isaac Brock (Howie B Remix)
Electronic - Released by Play It Again Sam on 8 May 2024
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo